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For the longest time, there has been a huge controversy over the implementation of a school-base sexuality school education. The debate always seems to go back and forth on whether the implementing of an abstinence-education in school systems will lower pregnancies and transmitted diseases such as HIV/STD’s. Abstinence-education is a form of sex education that teaches individuals to be abstinence from having sex. This type of education encourages others by not having sex until marriage and avoids the discussion of using contraceptives (birth control products). The first person to recognize and give support to the abstinence education was Ronald Regan in 1982, with the Adolescent Family Life Act administered by the Office of Adolescent Pregnancy Programs. In 1992, the funding for abstinence-only and abstinence-only-until-marriage programs grew drastically with the enactment of welfare reform. This law mandated to provide over 50 million dollars a year for the abstinence-only and abstinence-only-until-marriage program. Today, due to societal changes, there have been many disputes amongst scholars who believe that abstinence education does not provide an effect in preventing pregnancies and STD’s because many people engage in sexual activities and there have been higher rates of pregnancies and STD’s. While, on the contrary, there are still those who believe that the abstinence-only and abstinence-only-until-marriage programs still has a great deal of effect on such causes. In the following essay I will provide two articles that discussion the following topic: abstinence-base education. One article will debate that abstinence education increases pregnancies and sexually transmitted STD’s, while the article, will argue for the abstinence base education, which prevents STD’s and has a great deal of effect on low pregnancies.
“Abstinence-only and comprehensive sex education and the initiation of sexual activity and teen pregnancy” does not support the abstinence base